Flashes of Panic

The part of this class that worried me was the degree of programming. My C programming, to date, has been pretty much limited to “Hello, World” and some kludgy things for a systems course two years ago. It turns out that that, plus my jittery reading of K&R for much of the later part of this summer, is helping a lot. I’m roughing out pseudocode and generating a skeleton of a program which compiles and works as expected in intermediate stages. There’s a lot of complication yet remaining in the current assignment, of course, but it’s a relief that I’m not completely at a loss. Maybe I’ve been learning something about programming with all this PHP work.

The amusing part, I think, is that three weeks of this class appear to equal an entire semester of that systems course.

Now Playing: Twilight from From A Basement On The Hill by Elliott Smith